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  • Italy
    Sep, 1906
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini served for two years in the military

    Italy
    Sep, 1906

    After serving for two years in the military (from January 1905 until September 1906), he returned to teaching.




  • Johannesburg, South Africa
    Tuesday Sep 11, 1906
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    The mass protest meeting

    Johannesburg, South Africa
    Tuesday Sep 11, 1906

    In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian and Chinese populations. At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September that year, Gandhi urged Indians to defy the new law and to suffer the punishments for doing so.




  • Osaka, Japan
    Sep, 1906
    Yasunari Kawabata

    Grandmother's Death

    Osaka, Japan
    Sep, 1906

    In September 1906, Kawabata's grandmother died when Yasunari was seven.




  • Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 22, 1906
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Atlanta race riot

    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    Saturday Sep 22, 1906

    In September, riots broke out in Atlanta, precipitated by unfounded allegations of black men assaulting white women. This was a catalyst for racial tensions based on a job shortage and employers playing black workers against white workers. Ten thousand whites rampaged through Atlanta, beating every black person they could find, resulting in over 25 deaths.




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